Reply #14: Proof for you - good read too

[OKNancy]

I'm sure most of you know the book Tour of Duty by Doug Brinkley.
Here is a good book review that is almost a complete summary of the book.

Passage about Kerry being the VALEDICTORIAN of his class at Yale

Brinkley notes the parallels with Kennedy, but wisely refuses to exaggerate them. Certainly Kerry shared more with JFK than a monogram and Massachusetts. Dazzled by the idealism of Camelot, Kerry was a charter New Frontiersman, ready to pay any price and bear any burden. And there, of course, is where it gets interesting. The striving, preppy Kerry arrived at Yale in 1962 and graduated in 1966, before the war turned sour. By February of his senior year, he joined the navy. Even then, Kerry was skeptical about the war, which he expressed as class valedictorian. But he and his friends signed up anyway.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040327/BKKERY27/TPEntertainment/Books

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If a DUer gets that awful e-mail and doesn't feel like refuting the whole damn thing, just write back.... John Kerry was valedictorian of his class so the author of this e-mail starts off with a big lie, and it's a waste of time to even bother with the rest of it because whoever wrote this trash is obviously a nut ( and a liar)